Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
Tom it sounds like you are basically saying that the African continent must be figuratively "re-booted". How do you reset norms of a continent?
Were these more or less the norms prior to European colonization; and if so did European atrocities merely aggravate an existing condition? Or are these relatively new problems in the region, and not just on the scale that they occurr?

I don't know very much about how society recovered in Eastern Europe and especially the western Soviet Union after WWII, but the closest that I can think of to what has been occurring in Central Africa, in modern times, was maybe the Thirty Years' War. In much of Central Europe, society simply broke down completely, and everyone who wasn't a soldier survived as a camp-follower. Especially the women and children. But I don't know how much, if any applicability that has to modern Central Africa.